Do You Know Where Your Asters Are?

With two weeks left until the garden show preview, this was a week of heavy weeding.
Everything unnameable has been yanked.

Hidden among the spirea and in certain corners of the garden I found those long weedy stems and narrow pointed leaves. My neighbour has a large clump bordering the sidewalk. I walk by and want to remove those reedy semi-leafless stalks.

They are not phlox. I have been stumped before and so pulled them. Then when Fall comes I'm wondering where all those outstanding shimmery purple blossoms have gone. An aster is wildflower, they can't be killed.

But, oh yes, they can be mistakenly pulled. But not this year.